Her cover of Coldplay’s Every Teardrop... was flat, but a poignant My Kind Of Love helped turn the flagging set around.

Indie stalwarts The Charlatans, fronted by the now blond Tim Burgess, had no such problems, thrilling with a hit-packed set, including One To Another, How High and a moving, organ-heavy Tellin’ Stories.

Elsewhere, queues formed outside The Arena tent to catch a glimpse of London-born grime MC Wretch 32, who impressed with an accomplished vocal performance which ended with his chart-topping single Don’t Go.

A large bulk of the crowd had petered out when Manchester duo The Ting Tings took the stage, closing their show with That’s Not My Name.

But many more returned for talented guitarist Newton Faulkner, who excelled as much in his mid-song banter as he did with his dexterity.

Brick By Brick, lifted off his second album released this year, got the ball rolling before a trio of covers, concluded by his now famous take on Massive Attack’s Teardrop.

Say what you want about Rizzle Kicks but two things are for sure – they never take themselves seriously and they know how to get audiences dancing.

And that’s how it panned out when they appeared before a huge crowd to the sounds of the Pink Panther theme tune.